To: Liberal Classic
I do not believe that a BSD copyright will discourage SCO. The code pre-dates SCO's implementation, and indicates that SCO actually copied it from BSD. That's legal under the BSD copyright, until they claimed it as their own.
To: All
More interesting information about SCO's claims, which may have already been posted in another thread:
http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html
It demolishes a number of SCO's claims, point by point. It also provides good information about the origins of Unix.
To: justlurking
If SCO argues the GPL is invalid, it's not such a stretch to argue the same for the BSD license. Likewise, it seems to me that SCO's position is they own all UNIX implementations, not just the UNIX version 6, version 7, and SVR4, up to and including Linux and open source BSD. I believe that SCO is gambling on the ignorance of the judiciary on computer technology, and it's not an unsafe bet.
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08/19/2003 10:41:38 AM PDT by
Liberal Classic
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